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Pymmes Brook Trail
A walk across North London following The Pymmes Brook listening to voices of people talking about the river. Available in Sonic maps using following PUID codes Part 1: Cockfosters to Arnos Park. CODE 994 Part 2: Bowes Meadow to Cambridge Roundabout A10. CODE 1007
‘Walk Upon our Sweet and Blessed Land!’ : Exploring Walking, Complex Embodiment and Shared Space
Abstract: Building upon the disciplines of Truman, Shannon, and Springgay, this work discusses the complexities of inhabiting a crip, queer, black, or otherwise “othered” body while interacting with natural spaces and shared public spaces. The work would be categorized as a sound essay presented as a binaural, somewhat immersive soundwalk in an attempt to underscore
Re-Sounding the Archive: Sound Archives, Memory, and Creative Practice
Online seminar series 1pm, Friday 17, 24 & 31 July This online seminar series brings together leading artists and researchers working with sound archives and creative practice. Across three lunchtime talks, invited speakers will share perspectives from their own artistic and research practices, with a particular focus on how sound archives are listened to, interpreted,
Three Peaks Podcast Challenge
An interactive podcasting workshop-on-foot to the summits of three adjoining boroughs led by podcasters Andrew Stuck & journalist Rick Pearson. Learn interview techniques, editorial production and graduate as a roving National Park City reporter, applying your newly acquired skills to interviews during the week, to contribute to an end of week podcast. Bring a smartphone or digital sound
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Walking Art and Resistance at the 61st Venice Biennale: from Pussy Riot to the Holy See
Venice in May. Green water, muted light, the racketing of tourists’ wheeling luggage across damp stone. Now the Biennale has opened there are new sounds, sometimes protest chants, sometimes the footsteps of marchers. Or perhaps they are old sounds. Venice: a stage for spectacle and protest since the upheavals of 1968. The clamour of a
• Announcing the winners of SWS25
It’s been an absolute joy to explore this year’s submissions for the Sound Walk September Awards. Speaking on behalf of the Grand Jury, it wasn’t easy to pick which pieces stood out just a tad more in the field that was this year’s shortlist. But, using cold, hard, mathematics, the numbers didn’t lie, and were
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Articles on WLC
Sounding Art Trail: Listening to a Trail | Culture Routes Society
The UK leg of the Sounding Art Trail project, coordinated by the Culture Routes Society and supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme, has been successfully completed along the North Downs Way route. Aiming to draw attention to points along walking routes at risk due to climate change through sound and art, this project seeks
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Sounding Art Trail links Britain and Turkey
Sounding Art Trail: Walking, Listening & Creating with Place Sounding Art Trail is a site-specific soundscape project rooted in the creative practice of walking. The project unfolds along two long-distance routes namely the North Downs Way in the UK and the Lycian Way in Türkiye, inviting walkers to listen, move, and create with the landscapes
České Budějovice: Evropské hlavní město kultury 2028! INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL – SOUTH SPECIFIC 2028 Přidejte se k nám na cestu za (PERMA)kulturou.
South Specific Festival announces an open call for international co-productions of new site-specific and immersive projects in the field of live arts and audiovisual creation. Source: České Budějovice: Evropské hlavní město kultury 2028! INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL – SOUTH SPECIFIC 2028 Přidejte se k nám na cestu za (PERMA)kulturou.
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Shortlist zum Audiowalk-Award 2026
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Shortlist! Die Jury hat getagt und getagt und getagt, mal eingeschlossen im Studio, mal in den Kacheln der Videokonferenz. Nun präsentiert sie diese vier Produktionen für Shortlist des Audiowalk-Awards 2026. Wer hat nun gewonnen? Kommt und erfahrt’s auf dem Berliner Hörspielfestival der freien Szene. Im September 2026 in der Akademie …
Walking in Pairs 4
4th in the Walking in Pairs series with Kristina Rothstein in Vancouver, Canada and Tamsin Grainger in Edinburgh, Scotland. Walking together, apart. December 4th 2025. Our theme: Freedom / Constraint Kristina (9.45) : It was a chilly rainy day. I walked from my house to Queen Elizabeth Park, a large municipal arboretum which includes ornamental … Continue reading Walking in Pairs 4
• 1 topic + 1 location + 1 day + 16 audio creators = 1 audio walk
On 27 February 2026, 16 sound enthusiasts roamed the city centre of Bern with microphones and explored the world of ascents and descents – biographically, geographically, sociologically… and, in any case, artistically through sound. Accompanied by the two SOUNDMARKERS Florian Hohnhorst and Ruben Kurschat, a collective audio walk was created – and performed at the …
Events
Hush, Hush…
Celebrating Creativity in London’s Creativity & Wellbeing Week Creative adventures in listening to London from secret locations. What does it mean to listen to the buildings, listen to the neighbourhood, listen to the surroundings? Individually and as a group, walking partly in silence, you will explore how your sense of hearing is embodied and experience collective
• Audio Walking: An Introduction to Recording, Producing and Editing skills
Three fascinating workshops shifting from an introduction to audio field recording for audio-walks and soundscapes, through to actual field recording and then editing. We will make a work in prgress and communicate with a group of artists working on a similar workshop series in Sweden with Andrew Stuck. We will hope to produce a work in progress to share!
Sounding Out Pedar Balke
Have you heard of Peder Balke? If the answer is no, we hadn’t either, so it came as a great surprise when we were approached by the National Gallery to do a participatory walk “Sounding out Peder Balke”. As it turns out his work was extraordinary, as was his life. This Norwegian artist, who in the
• First Monday Sound Salon
Between November, 2016 and November 2017 the Museum of Walking ran regular Sound Salons on the First Monday of every month. Join us for relaxed informal discussions about field recording, audio walks, soundscape composition, immersive performances, geo-located media and digital live art performances, in which we share ideas, compositions and walks and explore how sound (and
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Links
Duncan MacLeod’s Website
Webb Avenue and Black Hill Audio Walk
